Pentagon Thinks US Soldiers Need Adult Super-Vision

Seeing the difference(click to view full) New firm PixelOptics of Roanoke, VA has announced that it will receive $3.5 million from the Defense Department to develop “SuperVision,” a technology that may improve the vision of US soldiers beyond 20/20 via electro-active prescription lenses. The technology uses sensors and electro-active transparent material to alter the index of refraction of the lens dynamically, without any moving parts. This provides a number of performance advantages, allowing the wearer to instantly achieve optimal vision no matter where they look (far, near, or in-between). In addition, lenses based on this technology show promise for significantly reducing momentary blurring caused by head tilt and movement, as well as distortion associated with conventional state of the art bifocals and progressive addition lenses. So, how can these glasses provide vision that’s better than 20/20? USMC LCPL Sensing The idea is that by adjusting the refractive index of an array of transparent pixels contained within the lens, it may also be possible to correct for higher-order aberrations in the human eye that were not previously amenable to improvement. Dr. Dwight Duston, the firm’s Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Military Programs and program manager for the military’s […]